Posts tagged Takoma Park
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Breakfast links: Taxis and corruption
Council passes taxi bill, spares Uber; Harris pleads guilty; Bring more power lines underground?; Amtrak eyes larger Union Station; Designing smaller apartments; Map DC’s abandoned bicycles; Takoma Park mulls municipal power company; And…. Keep reading…
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Takoma Park progressives are for progress
Tim Male, a City Councilmember in Takoma Park, Maryland, sent us this response to Dan Reed’s recent article, “Sometimes, it’s okay for progressives to embrace progress.” Dan Reed wrote recently about the link between development and progressiveness in and around the area of Takoma Park, but the narrow coverage missed the real story of what is going… Keep reading…
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Sometimes, it’s okay for progressives to embrace progress
Takoma Park has long been known for civic activism, dating back to the freeway fighters who stopped I-95 and I-270 from cutting through the area 40 years ago. But that culture of resistance to change could prevent the community from allowing positive improvements to take place. Writing in Utne Reader, the same publication that once called Montgomery County the “Most Enlightened… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On time, over budget
Trains run on time; With more cars; Alexandria approves waterfront plan; DC leads in LEED; Garvey wins nomination; Convince drivers to pay more; Takoma gets TOD. Keep reading…
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See you Sunday in Anacostia, 3 weeks at Clybourne Park
This Sunday is GGW’s tour of the Anacostia Museum, and there’s less than 3 weeks left until our happy hour and watching of Clybourne Park. The Anacostia museum trip starts at noon with a brown bag lunch. At 1, we’ll tour the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, then see the Anacostia Art Gallery at 3. It’s all free; RSVP here. You can reach… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Teeming with Teeters
Teeter to North Old Town; Yards getting retail; Crossroads at a crossroads?; One way to get a road project done; Policies impact pregnant, breastfeeding first responders; 12 arrested for voting rights; What a creative name; 2 competing reauthorizations coming; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: In camera
Cleared for videotaping police; DC fairly car-lite; Flashy architecture often has problems; Crystal City a go; Cyclists overpay for road space; NYC unveils new intercoms; And…; Shots, crashes. Keep reading…
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More housing could bolster Takoma Park’s business district
U-Md. journalism students Karen Carmichael and Jamie McIntyre try to explain why Takoma Park has so many locally-owned businesses in this ten-minute video, posted to YouTube late last month. In the beginning, it sounds like another screed against commercialism. Carmichael calls a CVS in Takoma, D.C. a “chunk of suburbiana” (doesn’t she know that… Keep reading…
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TIGER funds bus corridors, not K Street or bike sharing
The Washington region will receive $58.8 million for bus priority improvements across the region, but no money for the K Street Transitway or regional bicycle sharing in the TIGER grants. USDOT announced the winners today. Through regional planning organization MWCOG, local governments had applied for $204 million in bus improvements, $13 million for regional bike sharing,… Keep reading…
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Recently Lost Washington: Allen Theater in Takoma Park
Early Saturday morning, a clothing store and former Allen Theater in Takoma Park was destroyed in a three-alarm fire. Police from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties were called into fight the blaze at what was Gussini Fashion and Shoes, located at New Hampshire and Ethan Allen avenues. The story quickly made the rounds on firefighter blogs drawn to the spectacular flames. The… Keep reading…